UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Azikiwe Mohammed in Conversation with Alison Kuo and Timmhotep Aku
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UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Azikiwe Mohammed in Conversation with Alison Kuo and Timmhotep Aku
Join us on Thursday, November 5th from 6–7:30 pm for a conversation between 2026 Mid-Career Artist Azikiwe Mohammed, Alison Kuo, and Timmhotep Aku. The conversation is held on the occasion of Mohammed’s solo exhibition Where To From Here?, currently on view at BAXTER ST.
Where To, From Here brings together 140 photographs drawn from an ongoing series begun in 2023, which now comprises approximately 280 images. Made primarily with Polaroid film, the photographs trace Mohammed’s travels across the United States, documenting people, places, and sites of gathering along the way.
The question posed by the title is both geographic and political. Mohammed asks what kinds of spaces can hold people as established structures collapse, exclude, or become increasingly unable to serve the communities they were meant to support. He also considers who those structures have never held and how the shape of “us” continues to expand.
Timmhotep Aku is a Brooklyn-bred cultural worker who has written and edited for Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Fader, Complex, XXL, and other brands over his two-decade plus career. He is the story editor of the Signal Award-winning documentary podcastThe Blog Era and served as an associate producer and interviewer for the concert/documentary film,Kamasi Washington Live at The Apollo (2020). Aku is also a founding member of New Eyes, a collective Black critics, journalists, and other cultural workers dedicated to the preservation and advancement of critical Black voices in media. His ongoing multimedia and experiential project, Subject To Change, includes writing, art, event production and curation, pedagogy, and his radio show of the same name which airs monthly on London’s NTS Live.
Azikiwe Mohammed is a New York-based crafter who builds physical and imagined spaces that include Blackness and the stories of the people of this land. His work moves through sculpture, sound, photography, performance, video, and painted objects, considering how histories, communities, and forms of belonging can be held within physical spaces and within the body.
Mohammed is a 2005 graduate of Bard College, where he studied photography and fine arts. His work has been presented nationally and internationally and has received support from Art Matters, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Ruth Arts, the Rauschenberg Artists Fund, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.